KNM-ER 1470

Homo habilis

Important discoveries made in the Koobi Fora region of northern Kenya include a controversial skull called KNM-ER 1470 (Kenya National Museum–East Rudolf), which resembles both Australopithecus and Homo. As in the case of OH 16, this specimen had been broken into many fragments, which could be collected only after extensive sieving of the deposits. Some of the pieces were...

theory of Leakey

...He claimed to have found evidence at Koobi Fora to support this theory. Of particular importance is an almost completely reconstructed fossil skull found in more than 300 fragments in 1972 (coded as KNM-ER 1470). Leakey believed that the skull represented H. habilis and that this relatively large-brained, upright, bipedal form of Homo lived in eastern Africa as early as 2.5 million...